EP144: The Mental Health care gap after pregnancy loss - with Host Sharna
In this episode, Sharna recaps a live training from her Gap Series, The Mental Health Care Gap + Postpartum. She unpacks the research on bereaved mothers that rarely gets shown, six gaps in how the current system fails them, and why talk therapy alone was never going to be enough.
In this episode:
- The statistics on depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic distress after perinatal loss
- What a hazard ratio of nearly 26 actually means
- The six gaps the mental health care system has never fixed for bereaved mothers
- Why unresolved pregnancy loss trauma is stored in the body, not just the mind
Gems from this episode:
- "She has not failed the process. The process has failed her."
- "If any other patient population showed a nearly twenty-sixfold increase in risk for a serious health condition, we would call that a public health emergency. And yet for bereaved mothers, this is treated as a footnote to a concluded medical event."
- "Her body isn't betraying her. It's still responding to unresolved danger. You cannot talk your way out of a biological response."
- "This is not acute grief that resolves. This is a persistent, layered, often invisible mental health crisis."
- "Bereaved mothers rarely present with depression or anxiety or trauma in isolation. They're often carrying all of it at once."
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